Mike Pence should have been a warning to J. D. Vance about the inevitable abasement in store once you join a ticket with Donald Trump. Before he became Trump's running mate a decade ago, conservative Christian values were the center of Pence's political identity, but in October 2016, he reluctantly stood by Trump after the release of the tape in which Trump boasted about grabbing women 'by the pussy.' It was a sign of things to come. Pence became vice president, and for the next four years, he defended his boss through moral abominations and deficit explosions that cut against his fiscal conservatism, flinching only when Trump asked him to help steal an election. His reward' Trump did nothing while a mob threatened to hang Pence. All of this was common knowledge when Vance agreed to run with Trump in 2024. No one lands on a presidential ticket if they're not outrageously ambitious'nearly every veep for at least a century has fancied themselves a future president'but Vance is...
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